readDat: readDat

In bgctw/RespChamberProc: Processing Data from Respiration Chambers

readDat

Description

Read a data logger .dat file into a data-frame

Usage

readDat(fName, nRowsFileInfo = 1, nRowsColInfo = 2, 
    sep = ",", ..., colClasses = rep(NA, 
        ncol(colInfo)), colsTimeStamp = 1, 
    formatTS = NULL, tz = "UTC", na.strings = c("", 
        "NA", "NAN", "\"NAN\""))

Arguments

fName	scalar string: file name or a connection, e.g. returned by unz
nRowsFileInfo	integer scalar: number of lines before column information
nRowsColInfo	integer vector: number of lines with column description
sep	column separator
...	further arguments to link{read.table}
colClasses	see link{read.table}
colsTimeStamp	integer vector: colums with time stamp column (will be set to POSIXct
formatTS	format string of the timestamp columns, see strptime, e.g.
tz	specify a time zone when converting to POSIXct, default: current local e.g CET, UTC
na.strings	see link{read.table}

Details

When providing an open connection, caller is responsible for closing it. Closed connections are closed on exit of the function.

Author(s)

Thomas Wutzler, Oscar Perez Priego

See Also

read81xVar

Examples

fName <- system.file(
  "genData/chamberLoggerEx1_short.dat", package = "RespChamberProc")
if (nzchar(fName)) {
	ds <- readDat(fName)
}
# reading first from zipped file
fName <- system.file(
  "genData/SMANIE_Chamber1_26032015.zip", package = "RespChamberProc")
if (nzchar(fName)) {
	ds <- readDat( unz(fName, filename = unzip(fName, list = TRUE)[1,"Name"] )
			,tz = "UTC")
}

bgctw/RespChamberProc documentation built on Jan. 4, 2024, 6:12 a.m.